"Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish," the government has argued.
The 'plaintiffs' want to buy raw milk, for the health benefits.
Now, I have some experience with this, because our family drinks raw milk (note to Feds - go fuck yourselves), and we came to this partially because of Spawn 2's Crohn's disease. We talked it over with her GI doctor, and he didn't have any specific prohibition to it; our biggest problem came with her grandmother.
We solved it when (at Sunday dinner) we asked who around the table had drunk raw milk regularly and every hand went up.
'Nuff said.
This is a classic case of how the government gets involved where it doesn't belong. Widespread pasteurization was an attempt to get fresh milk to troops in war. Then BigMilk got the government to make pasteurized milk mandatory, shutting out all those pesky local competitors. Once again, government getting in the way of commerce.
I want raw milk; my source has raw milk, and will take money in exchange.
That's the free market.
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